Roy Harris wrote a three movement composition in this genre, which opens with a passacaglia and closes with a fugue. Alfred Schittke wrote one on the death of his wife, and that work uses a waltz on the BACH theme and features a passacaglia in the finale, while Nikolai Medtner's only work in this genre was in C major and was published posthumously. A prelude marked Lento opens Shostakovich's venture in G minor, and the main theme of the allegro ma non troppo last movement combines with the main theme from the Allegro Brillante first movement for a double fugue finale in Robert Schumann's work in E-flat major. One of these works in A major has a fourth movement consisting of variations on the composer's Lied Die Forelle. For 10 points, identify this type of composition, exemplified by Schubert's, which is nicknamed
Roy Harris wrote a three movement composition in this genre, which opens with a passacaglia and closes with a fugue. Alfred Schittke wrote one on the death of his wife, and that work uses a waltz on the BACH theme and features a passacaglia in the finale, while Nikolai Medtner's only work in this genre was in C major and was published posthumously. A prelude marked Lento opens Shostakovich's venture in G minor, and the main theme of the allegro ma non troppo last movement combines with the main theme from the Allegro Brillante first movement for a double fugue finale in Robert Schumann's work in E-flat major. One of these works in A major has a fourth movement consisting of variations on the composer's Lied Die Forelle. For 10 points, identify this type of composition, exemplified by Schubert's, which is nicknamed "Trout."
Roy Harris wrote a three movement composition in this genre, which opens with a passacaglia and closes with a fugue.
{Piano quintet}